Boswell, H. James, "American Blue Book Western Washington," Seattle, Lowman
and Hanford Co., 1922. p. 27.
JUDGE JNO. F. MAIN is another able member of the Washington Supreme bench.
He was born in Illinois in 1864, and is a graduate of Princeton University,
where he took his A. B. degree in 1891. He later attended the Univsesity of
Michigan. After practicing in Aledo, Ill., for three years, he located in
Seattle in 1900. For four years he served the University of Washington as
Professor of Law. In 1909 he became judge of the King County Superior court
and for three years served in that capacity, establishing a record of which
any man might well feel justly proud. Finally in 1912, Judge Main went on the
Washington State Supreme bench, a position he has held for the past ten uyears
with credit to himself. I do not believe there is a more popular jurist in
the state than Judge Main. It has been as a member of the Supreme bench that
Judge Main has done his greatest work. There he has had an opportunity more
varied and covering a wide field in which to demonstrate his knowledge of the
law and its proper interpretation. I have no hesitancy in saying that he has
no superior as a jurist in the entire Northwest, some fo the opinions handed
down by him being models of precision and of law. In 1892 Judge Main married
Miss Mary G. Crouch, and the couple have one child. Judge Main belongs to the
University club of Seattle, Seattle Golf club, Tacoma Country club and Olympia
Golf and Country club.
Submitted by: Judy Bivens
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